Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberals! Stop your telegrams telling me how sad it was that I got beat. . . . The job we have ahead of us now is not to let any more get beat. Let me be a lesson to you." ¶ After 35 years of married life, Linda Gaddy Bilbo of Poplarville, Miss, last fortnight was divorced by Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Grounds: Cruel and inhuman treatment of the Senator (TIME, Aug. 1). Last week she announced that she might run against him for the nomination in 1940. Said she: "I've been in politics as long as the Senator...
...ready to believe the problem "insoluble" last week was U. S. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, whose publishers seized the occasion to release her 122-page, fact-packed book, Refugees: Anarchy or Organization?*. No secret is it that Miss Thompson's magazine and newspaper crusade stimulated President Roosevelt to call the Evian meeting. Into her book Newspundit Thompson crams a survey of the post-War history of the refugee problem and a grandiose proposal to deal with...
...Miss Thompson, ever a brilliant rationalizer of ideas, says that her plan developed largely from conversations with German Credit Expert Moritz Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. It consists, in its simplest terms, of an international corporation for trading in refugees. Capital for this company, tentatively called "International Resettlement Co.," would take the form of billions of dollars of blocked German marks, Hungarian pengos, Rumanian lei, etc., now owed refugees and foreign investors who cannot collect them outside the countries in question. The corporation would contract to evacuate a batch of refugees, offering the emigrating...
...conference cheered Dr. Cabot, gasped at Dr. West, applauded Dr. Fishbein's oratory, loudly contested A. M. A. ideas. Asked for no formal endorsement, the delegates hailed Miss Roche's assurance that the next Congress would consider her program. To Manhattan went Dr. Hugh Cabot and friends, where they proceeded to hold their first annual meeting, under the name of the Committee of Physicians. They upheld the Roche program. To their Chicago fortress went A. M. A.'s triumvirate, repeating: "There can be but one master in the house of physician...
...Present rates for carrying cotton goods: 1) from Gadsden, Ala. to Chicago (670 miles) $1 per 100 lb., from Utica, N. Y. to Chicago (694 miles) 89?; 2) from Hattiesburg, Miss, to Chicago (814 miles) $1.06, from Lewiston, Me. to Detroit (813 miles) 96?; 3) from Knoxville, Tenn. to Indianapolis (377 miles) 78?, from Syracuse, N. Y. to Detroit (378 miles) 67?. *In a study of eight industries published four months ago, the National Industrial Conference Board found that wage scales in the South are substantially below the East and West even with lower living costs taken into consideration. According...